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An Ethnography of Twitch Streamers: Negotiating Professionalism in New Media Content Creation
(2017-05-12)
Twitch is an online video distribution platform that allows individuals to broadcast live video of themselves playing video games, and includes features that allow viewers to financially support their favorite Twitch ...
Strength of weak ties and the modern job search
(2017-05-12)
This dissertation examines the social networks of job seekers and information sources using two samples of Americans who have sought jobs in the past two-years. After a brief introductory chapter and a chapter reviewing ...
Hidden tensions: An exploration of multiple company employees' social identities in the U.S. and China
(2017-08-01)
This dissertation examined Chinese and U.S. organizational members’ multiple social identities and how they engaged in identity work to develop, organize, revise, and manage identity tensions that emerge from various ...
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE CHINESE?: AMERICAN SOJOURNERS‘ EXPERIENCES OF BEING THE OTHER IN CHINA
(2017-05-12)
This study is an examination of American sojourners’ intercultural experiences in China, and an exploration of their identity of being the Other, emerging from intercultural encounters. Through participants’ self-descriptions, ...
THE ADDITION OF VALENCE AND NARRATIVE ENDINGS’ INFLUENCE ON THE RISK CONVERGENCE MODEL
(2017-08-01)
The risk convergence model (RCM) was developed as a theoretical framework to organize research on media effects and narrative persuasion (So & Nabi, 2013). The model identifies social distance to a fictional character as ...
REACTANCE THEORY AND SELF-CONSTRUAL IN THE EAST AND WEST
(2017-05-12)
Using psychological reactance theory (Brehm, 1966) as an explanatory framework, this dissertation experimentally tests the effects of appeal type, restoration type, and self-construal on freedom threat perceptions, reactance ...
INTERSECTING POLITICS AND HEALTH: REPRESENTATIONS OF A MODERN PUBLIC HEALTH INITIATIVE
(2017)
Public health initiatives are spurred from three dominant political ideologies—neoliberalism, social justice, and pluralism—that influence the policy goals and methods. Neoliberalism, in particular, is the dominant ...
An Ancient Practice in the Modern Age: An Examination of the Camino de Santiago and the Impact of Technology on Modern Pilgrimage
(2017-12-15)
For more than twelve hundred years, sojourners have been walking the pilgrim routes of El Camino de Santiago de Compostela, also known as The Way of Saint James, in northern Spain. With a long and varied history, the Camino ...